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Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
You are here.
Creativity before productivity.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Map ≠ Territory
The Overthinker.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Cover, story.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Each man believes only his experience.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Reason for being
Experience.
Distraction, focus.
Failure = feedback.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Think of many things; do one.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Building vs. betting.
More before better.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
No one is coming to save you.
The obstacle is the way.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Movement, action.
Experience is up only.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
It's all relative.
Perspective.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Truth
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Comfort vs. pain.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Distraction is dilution.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Do less, do more.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
